iWeb troubles with El Capitan: Photo pages and links

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iWeb troubles with El Capitan: Photo pages and links

Hi all,

I write my many web sites (like www.michaelwillems.ca) in iWeb. Now in El Capitan, I am running into some issues. Hard to diagnose, but it seems an El Capitan/iWeb issue on both counts.

1. Photo pages and albums pages no longer work. Where there should be the photo page (or the albums page), I see nothing instead.

2. Some new shapes with links do not appear: they remain invisible. They do work (if I mouse over the cursor changes shape, and the functionality is fine), but are just not visible.

Surely there must be a workaround... I hope. Else, major rewriting which I really don't look forwards to. iWeb is awesome, even though it's no longer supported.

Any ideas very welcome.

Michael

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Dec 11, 2015 10:59 AM

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Answer 1

MVW Photo Author

Level 1

8 points

Dec 11, 2015 11:38 AM in response to MVW Photo

FOUND IT! At thest the non-functional photos/albums. Turns out that a bunch of files were not installed, in the new site. I copied them myself from an old web site.

Using commands:

mkdir Slideshow

cp ../../../michaelwillems.ca.old/Scripts/Widgets/Slideshow/* Slideshow/

mkdir PlayButton

cp ../../../michaelwillems.ca.old/Scripts/Widgets/PlayButton/* PlayButton/

mkdir HeaderControls

cp ../../../michaelwillems.ca.old/Scripts/Widgets/HeaderControls/* HeaderControls/

mkdir FooterControls

cp ../../../michaelwillems.ca.old/Scripts/Widgets/FooterControls/* FooterControls/

and finally, after changing directories agaikn

cp ../../michaelwillems.ca.old/Scripts/iWebDebug.js .

Now it works again (see www.michaelwillems.ca under "PHOTOS").

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Answer 2

Ethmoid

Level 6

11,488 points

Dec 12, 2015 12:50 AM in response to MVW Photo

The reason for Photos and your Gallery problems is the fact that iWeb runs on iPhoto and iPhoto was discontinued with Photos taking over, so this is why it won't work.

However, you did find a solution, but what you need to do is re-install iPhoto or drag and drop the photos from the new photos package.

As for the links - why not do a search of this forum and you will see that there are many posts regarding the shapes and links problems with El Capitan and iWeb - seems to be an El Capitan and iWeb problem, but as iWeb is no longer supported, don't hold your breath for any kind of solution.

May be time to move on and use a package that is supported such as EverWeb or Freeway Pro.

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